A corner of the 40-foot high, graveyard wall at the San Estevan del Rey Mission and convent at the Acoma Pueblo "Sky City" in New Mexico stands in the foreground. The small scale of two men, one standing at the top of the wall, one seated near him...

convent are thought to have been built by Fray Juan Ramirez between 1629 and 1641.; The ruins of the Pueblo Acoma Mission and graveyard stand on top of a large mesa in northern New Mexico. The flat-roofed mission has two square steeples and is made...

known as the "soldier guards," were added to the top of the wall during World War I. A dirt path has formed on the ground at the base of the wall from people walking around it.; The massive scale of the graveyard wall at the San Estevan del Rey...

of grass are in the foreground. Standing on top of a large mesa, the mission is thought to have been built between 1629 and 1641 by Fray Juan Ramirez.; The Pueblo Acoma Mission and convent in New Mexico is flat-roofed as shown in this photo of a...

View of a Penitente graveyard in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico. Shows wooden crosses of various design; some graves are surrounded by picket fences. Adobe houses and a chapel, probably a morada, and bluffs are in the distance.

has a hand-carved, wooden railing. The remains of another wall are in the distance. Built on top of a large mesa, the mission is thought to have been built between 1629 and 1641 by Fray Juan Ramirez.; The Pueblo Acoma Mission and convent in New...

structure are in the foreground. Additional mesas, including the "Enchanted Mesa," stand in the distance. The mission and convent are thought to have been built by Fray Juan Ramirez between 1629 and 1641.; The Pueblo Acoma Mission and convent...

levels and has a large porch with a hand-carved, wooden railing on the top corner. Smaller, protruding walls support the exterior side of the structure. Built on top of a large mesa, the mission and convent are thought to have been built by Fray...

View of Sacajawea's and Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau's gravestones at Fort Washakie, Wyoming. The graves have been recently covered. Sacajawea's gravestone is a pillar of stone with a plaque placed on one face. Baptiste Charbonneau's gravestone has an...

View of Winnemucca, Nevada; shows the Western Pacific Railroad depot, a boxcar, a graveyard, a covered wagon, the Humboldt County courthouse, the Little Humboldt River, houses, and a shed with lettering: "Old Buford All Straight Whisky."

Interview with Albert Niederhut, of Niederhut Carriages. Niederhut is the son of Henry E. Niederhut one of the founding members of the Niederhut Carriage Company. This interview covers the history of the company, its employees, and memories of...

View of the Santuario de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe on 100 S. Guadalupe Street in Santa Fe (Santa Fe County), New Mexico. The adobe building has a ruined three tier bell tower, and is surrounded by an adobe wall. A graveyard is inside the wall....

View of a Penitente wooden cross wedged in a pile of stones (a descanso) on the site of an abandoned town, Clover (Huerfano County), in the San Isabel National Forest in Colorado. The cross marks a point where a funeral procession stops on the way...

An abandoned, wrecked automobile is in a field near the adobe (probably) San Luis Gonzaga Catholic Church and graveyard in Las Tablas (Rio Arriba County), New Mexico. The church has a wooden steeple. Shows a wire fence and buildings. Rock...

Children walk in front of the San Francisco de Asís Mission (Mission Dolores) at 3321 16th Street in San Francisco, California. The adobe building has columns, a tile roof, a belfry, and a cross on the roof. Shows a graveyard enclosed by a wooden...

View of the Yorktown Victory Monument in Yorktown (York County), Virginia. The monument, a slender granite column topped by a figure of Liberty, was commissioned by the Continental Congress in 1781 to commemorate the great victory at Yorktown in...

View of St. John's Church (St. John's Episcopal Church) at 2401 East Broad Street in Richmond, Virginia. The wooden colonial style church has clapboard siding, a steeple topped with a cross and is surrounded by a graveyard. Shows funerary monuments...

Booklet compiled for the fiftieth anniversary of the Central Presbyterian Church located in Denver, Colorado. Included in the book are excerpts of correspondence from previous clergy, list of all Elders during the fifty years, and a history of the...

Graves are surrounded by wooden fences and tall grass in the cemetery at San Luis Rey de Francia in San Diego County, California. Shows tombstones and wooden crosses on some graves. The ruins of a chapel are nearby. The bell tower and dome of the...